开雷，男，博士，教授，学士毕业于中国矿业大学生物工程，硕士毕业于浙江大学（硕博连读）微生物学，博士毕业于德国达姆施塔特工业大学生物学。2012.10 - 2015.05 在德国达姆施塔特工业大学担任讲师（Habilitation，具有评教授的资质）；2015.05 在德国马普所生化研究所做研究员（Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter）；2017.06 在江苏师范大学评为教授。
开雷教授的研究方向是无细胞体外蛋白表达，膜蛋白的结构与功能研究、无细胞蛋白合成生物学、植物水通道蛋白的功能与结构研究、特殊水通道蛋白对植物光合作用的影响及在植物抗逆中的作用。
在达姆施塔特工业大学任讲师期间，承担了本科生课程Plant physiology（植物生理学）等教学任务。参与了学校多媒体教学改革，协助完成了两门本科课程的网络化设计及录制内容。同时，培养博士生1名，硕士生3名，联合培养博士生（南京农业大学与德国达姆施塔特工业大学）2名。2015年到德国马普所生化研究所任职研究员工作以来，与德国工程院院士Petra Schwille教授联合指导博士生6名。
部分发表文章：
1.Yue K., Zhu Y., Kai L. “Cell-Free Protein Synthesis: Chassis towards the minimal cell”. Cells, 2019
2.Kai, L.* and Schwille, P*. “Cell-Free Protein Synthesis and Its Perspectives for Assembling Cells from the Bottom-Up”. Advanced Biosystems, 1800322.
3.Jia, H., Kai, L., Heymann, M., García-Soriano, D. A., Härtel, T., & Schwille, P. (2018). Light-induced Printing of Protein Structures on Membranes in vitro. Nano letters, 18(11), 7133-7140.
4.Jia H., Heymann M., Bernhard F., Schwille P., Kai L.* “Cell-free protein synthesis in micro compartments: building a minimal cell from biobricks”. N. Biotechnol. 2017, 39: 199-205.
5.Lei Kai, Erika Orbán, Erik Henrich, Davide Proverbio, Volker Dötsch, Frank Bernhard. Co-translational stabilization of insoluble proteins in cell-free expression systems. Methods in Molecular Biology (2015), 1258:125-43
6.Lei Kai, Ralf Kaldenhoff. A refined model of water and CO2 membrane diffusion: Effects and contribution of sterols and proteins. Scientific Reports, (2014) 4: 6665
7.Ralf Kaldenhoff, Lei Kai, Norbert Uehlein. Aquaporins and membrane diffusion of CO2 in living organisms. BBA-General Subjects, (2014), 1840 (5) 1592-1595
8.Xu Zhang, Jiazhang Lian, Lei Kai, Lei Huang, Peilin Cena, Zhinan Xu. Enhanced functional expression of aquaporin Z via fusion of in situcleavable leader peptides in Escherichia coli cell-free system. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, (2014) 55: 26-30
9.Christian Roos, Lei Kai, Stefan Haberstock, Davide Proverbio, Umesh Ghoshdastider, Yi Ma, Slawomir Filipek, Xiaoning Wang, Volker Dötsch1 and Frank Bernhard. High Level Cell-Free Production of Membrane Proteins into Nanodiscs. Methods in Molecular Biology (2014), 1118: 109-130
10.Lei Kai, Volker Dötsch, Ralf Kaldenhoff, Frank Bernhard. Artificial Environments for the Co-Translational Stabilization of Cell-Free Expressed Proteins.Plos one (2013) 8(2): e56637
